Chapter 21: Using Project Server 2002 for Enterprise-Wide Projects

Overview

Throughout this book, we’ve hinted at a variety of new collaboration and enterprise project management features available in Microsoft Project 2002 Professional. We haven’t discussed these features yet because they weren’t accessible until you installed Microsoft Project Server. With Server installed, these Professional-specific features are now “live,” and ready for your use.

In essence, Project Professional’s extra features enables you to manage larger projects, across your company’s entire network. You no longer have to rely on e-mail communication with team members; project assignments can be made directly from Project Professional, over the network. And your projects will always be up-to-date because when a team member completes a task, it’s automatically registered with Project Server.

To access these useful features, you have to be using Project Professional, and your company must be running Project Server on Windows 2000 Server. If you’re not connected to Project Server, these enterprise and collaboration features will be grayed out on Project Professional’s menus—which makes Project Professional look and act just like Project Standard. This chapter will cover the following topics:

• Planning an enterprise-wide project

• Logging into Project Server from Project Professional

• Using Project Professional’s enterprise management features

• Managing enterprise projects

• Managing enterprise resources